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GHMC staff censured TIMES NEWS NETWORK 25.4.09
Hyderabad: Thirty-five Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) employees, including deputy municipal commissioner (DMC), Malkajgiri circle, D John Samson, were meted out punishment by the municipal administration and urban development (MA&UD) department for fleeing from office two years ago, after they came to know that Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) officials had trapped one of their colleagues.
The MA&UD department on Friday issued 35 GOs censuring the GHMC employees of the Malkajgiri municipal circle for their behaviour on that day. A senior assistant of Malkajgiri circle Ch Ganesh was trapped by the ACB on July 26, 2007 at about 3 pm at the office. Almost all the 35 employees, including DMC who were present in office at that time, left within minutes.
As per the GOs, the behaviour of deputy municipal commissioner John Samson and other staff members showed “lack of devotion to duty and integrity and contravention of rule 3(1) of APCS (Conduct) Rules, 1964.” Taking their irresponsible behaviour seriously, the ACB had written to the MA&UD to initiate departmental action against all officers and staff members. The MA&UD asked the GHMC to take necessary action against them.
HC restores ACB’s power to arrest TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Friday stayed a recent order of the state government restraining the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) from arresting government officials and employees caught in disproportionate assets cases. The division bench comprising chief justice Anil Ramesh Dave and justice Ramesh Ranganathan, while admitting a petition filed by freedom fighter Professor M S Ramakrishna who challenged the decision of the government and sought the intervention of the court in setting it aside, went through the counter affidavit filed by the ACB on this issue. The views of the ACB were in total agreement with those of the petitioner.
Counsel for the petitioner Gandra Mohan Rao told the court that the government had issued this restraint order through a memo on Oct 15, 2008 directing the ACB director general not to arrest officials involved in corruption cases. The officials of the revenue department formed an association and opposed the move to arrest officials involved in corruption cases, Ramakrishna said. This association’s representation to the government resulted in the formation of a group of ministers (GoM), which in turn made some recommendations, he said. After examining all these, the government issued the present memo preventing the ACB from making any arrests, he said. Interestingly, the ACB in its counter told the court that in four-and-half-months prior to the issuance of this memo they booked cases against 22 corrupt officials and arrested all of them.
Whereas, after the issuance of this memo, though they booked 44 corrupt officials in various cases in the last five months, arrests were made only in the case of two officials. This convinced the bench that the impugned memo is indeed hampering the ACB’s drive against corruption.
GHMC staff censured TIMES NEWS NETWORK 25.4.09
Hyderabad: Thirty-five Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) employees, including deputy municipal commissioner (DMC), Malkajgiri circle, D John Samson, were meted out punishment by the municipal administration and urban development (MA&UD) department for fleeing from office two years ago, after they came to know that Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) officials had trapped one of their colleagues.
The MA&UD department on Friday issued 35 GOs censuring the GHMC employees of the Malkajgiri municipal circle for their behaviour on that day. A senior assistant of Malkajgiri circle Ch Ganesh was trapped by the ACB on July 26, 2007 at about 3 pm at the office. Almost all the 35 employees, including DMC who were present in office at that time, left within minutes.
As per the GOs, the behaviour of deputy municipal commissioner John Samson and other staff members showed “lack of devotion to duty and integrity and contravention of rule 3(1) of APCS (Conduct) Rules, 1964.” Taking their irresponsible behaviour seriously, the ACB had written to the MA&UD to initiate departmental action against all officers and staff members. The MA&UD asked the GHMC to take necessary action against them.
HC restores ACB’s power to arrest TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Friday stayed a recent order of the state government restraining the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) from arresting government officials and employees caught in disproportionate assets cases. The division bench comprising chief justice Anil Ramesh Dave and justice Ramesh Ranganathan, while admitting a petition filed by freedom fighter Professor M S Ramakrishna who challenged the decision of the government and sought the intervention of the court in setting it aside, went through the counter affidavit filed by the ACB on this issue. The views of the ACB were in total agreement with those of the petitioner.
Counsel for the petitioner Gandra Mohan Rao told the court that the government had issued this restraint order through a memo on Oct 15, 2008 directing the ACB director general not to arrest officials involved in corruption cases. The officials of the revenue department formed an association and opposed the move to arrest officials involved in corruption cases, Ramakrishna said. This association’s representation to the government resulted in the formation of a group of ministers (GoM), which in turn made some recommendations, he said. After examining all these, the government issued the present memo preventing the ACB from making any arrests, he said. Interestingly, the ACB in its counter told the court that in four-and-half-months prior to the issuance of this memo they booked cases against 22 corrupt officials and arrested all of them.
Whereas, after the issuance of this memo, though they booked 44 corrupt officials in various cases in the last five months, arrests were made only in the case of two officials. This convinced the bench that the impugned memo is indeed hampering the ACB’s drive against corruption.
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